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Following four performances of The Marriage of Figaro, the HSoM presents a night of faculty artistry and fun on Monday (The Faculty Follies) and two evenings of student chamber performances, and then prepares for the upcoming four-day holiday weekend. EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http...

Spring is here!EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streamsGuest artist clarinetist Kevin Streich will present a master class on Tuesday, March 24, at 6 pm, in the Broyhill Music Center Recital Hall.ASU Opera present's Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro on...

We're back from Spring Break, and we begin the remainder of the semester knowing the names of three new colleagues who will join the Hayes School of Music in Fall 2015. Our Music Theory, Music Therapy, and Tuba/Euphonium searches have concluded successfully: Ms. Katurah Christenbury, who has served as Lecturer in Music Therapy this year on an interim basis, will continue in that role. Dr. Greg McCandless, currently Chair of Music Composition at Full Sail University) will join...

We'll have both "lion" and "lamb" versions of March this week—60 degrees on Wednesday, high 20s with snow on Thursday—as we look forward to ASU's spring break. The HSoM concluded its audition season on Saturday, and we'll see in these coming weeks just who will be part of the fall class of 2015. EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar:...

Today is another "snow day" at Appalachian, with classes canceled till 2 pm. For those of you off the mountain, picture a steady fall of powder, not a puff of wind, all sound muffled slightly by the insulating accumulation. And now the clouds have lifted, with bits of blue sky visible intermittently. The forecast calls for improving conditions this afternoon and evening, so performances by guest artists Lynn Mackey and David Gee (Recital Hall, 6 pm) and the Appalachian...

Due to the University's weather-related closing today and tomorrow morning, three Hayes School of Music performances have been rescheduled. Please see the following for details.*Thursday night's (2/19) performance by the HSoM faculty string ensemble with faculty clarinetist Andrea Cheeseman (featuring Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, K. 581, and Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht), is rescheduled to Saturday night, February 21, at 8 pm in the Broyhill Music Center Recital Hall.*Friday night's (2/20)...

As forecast last week, we had a bit of a winter storm blow through yesterday and today. Only mandatory University operations are running, with the rest of campus scheduled to open at 11 am today. Classes, which were canceled as of 3 pm yesterday, will resume at 2 pm today. Such is mountain weather. Now we'll brace for the coldest days of the year, but our concerts will go on, including APPropos! tonight and the Axiom Brass Quintet tomorrow. EVENTS For...

T.S. Eliot said that "April is the cruelest month," but plenty in the High Country would beg to differ as February swings from springlike to harsh winter in a matter of days. That's what happens this week, with temperatures hovering around 60 degrees yesterday and plummeting to a daytime high of 10 degrees next Sunday. It's a great week to be a Mountaineer (as long as you've got good cold-weather gear)! EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances,...

The HSoM has now hosted three of its scheduled five audition days, with the remaining two scheduled for Saturdays, February 14 and 28. Well over 300 prospective students will audition for us this year, as we work to identify the fall's incoming class. EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: ...

As our friends in the northeast brace for an "epic, historic" winter storm, we're seeing just a "dusting to an inch" of snow. And we're in full swing for the semester, with concerts scheduled, an audition day on Saturday, and many other events in the planning stages. EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music....

After a three-day weekend, we're enjoying a set of mild-weather days here in the High Country.EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streamsCANCELED: Alumna cellist Alex Boatwright will perform in recital on Thursday, January 22, at 6 pm, in the...

The Spring 2015 semester has begun. We've moved from the quietest days of the year—last week—to the full-throttled energy of week one. Here's to another fantastic semester in the HSoM! EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-...

Happy New Year! We begin 2015 with very good news from our accrediting organization, the National Association of Schools of Music. At its November 2014 meeting, the Association's Commission on Accreditation reviewed our Self-Study, the Visitors' Report, and our Optional Response, and "voted to approve [our] application and grant renewal of Membership." With this renewal, the HSoM's next full accreditation review will occur during the 2023-2024 academic year. The...

The Fall 2014 semester has come to a close. Twenty-nine new graduates of the Hayes School of Music were among the 500 or so new alumni who were celebrated at Saturday afternoon's Commencement. EVENTS For complete listings of Spring 2015 performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-...